Lajos Rodek
Principal Engineer I - Public Cloud at Cloudera
Szeged, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolLajos Rodek is a Principal Engineer specializing in public cloud foundations for enterprise data platforms, with a decade-plus career bridging big data architecture, Java backend development, and cloud security. He designs and implements core CDP Public Cloud features—storage authorization, encryption in transit and at rest, and secrets management—drawing on deep Hadoop, AWS and distributed-systems expertise. A PhD-level researcher who transitioned from image-processing academia to production-scale data platforms, he combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with hands-on DevOps and backend engineering. Lajos is a certified Hadoop and Cassandra practitioner, frequent trainer and university lecturer, and an active contributor to Cloudbreak where his commits strengthened cloud storage configuration, deployment consistency and test coverage. Known for leading distributed teams and supporting pre-sales and PoCs, he excels at turning complex requirements into secure, high-throughput solutions.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Szegedi Tudományegyetem
Hungarian, English, German
Github Skills (12)
javas10
configuration-management10
infrastructure10
cloud-infrastructure10
aws10
java10
cloud-storage10
aws-cloud10
hadoop9
testing9
deploying9
big-data9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/cloudbreak
Nov 2018 - Jan 2023
CDP Public Cloud is an integrated analytics and data management platform deployed on cloud services. It offers broad data analytics and artificial intelligence functionality along with secure user access and data governance features.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1494 reviews, 130 commits, 315 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Lajos's commits focus on configuring and modifying cloud storage locations for various services within the CDP Public Cloud platform, demonstrating a focus on back-end infrastructure and deployment. They implemented changes to enhance the setup process for data lake deployments. The user also implemented changes to align with a previous set of commits and ensure higher consistency with descriptions and case handling. They improved test setups and unit tests to accommodate the changes made.
data-management-platformcdp-public-cloudsecurecloud-servicesdata-management
lajosrodek/k8s-config
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 3 tags in 1 day
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